ELLENVILLE � An Ellenville woman is at the center of a very confusing story involving drinking, mental confusion, and criminal destruction of property. Alice Negron, 47, was out with a friend in Kingston on Thursday, August 26. She had some drinks, "I had two Long Island Iced Teas, and then I was drinking Rum and Coke."

And at that point, according to Negron, something weird happened.

"Someone put something in my drink. I don't know what it was, but I had a reaction to it. I started hallucinating, having visions and hearing voices."

Her friend decided to drive them home to Ellenville.

"On the way home," says Negron, "I threw up out the car window. And my friend says that after that I changed and I became belligerent. I got out of the car."

This was on Berme Road in Stone Ridge.

Alice Negron is unsure about what happened next.

"I have no idea how I entered this person's home. I don't know them, and I had never been there in my life."

Negron was reported to have entered a house by an unlocked door. Inside she damaged some things with a total estimated cost of $250.

"There was nobody home," said Negron. "No dogs, thank god. I just remember being frightened and thinking I was being chased by aliens. I was hallucinating. I don't know why, but I ended up in the kitchen turning the stove on and off. And then I thought I had to get out of there, but at first I couldn't get out. And then, somehow I did and I went back to the road."

Her friend was still there, or close by, she does not remember. "He drove up and found me. We went back to Ellenville. But I left my pocket book in the house, and that's how the lady knew who I was, because her house was trashed."

Negron adds, "I want to say to her � that I'm truly sorry about what happened and I'm going to pay the damages."

Meanwhile, home in Ellenville, Negron says, she began to come out of the daze she'd been in.

"I started to have memories at that point, and I realized I'd done something really strange. I called the Ellenville Police and asked them if somebody had called in a break-in. Then I went and turned myself in."

At some point, while at the Ellenville Police Station, Negron says, "I went outside, and I locked myself out. I went home, no one was there, so I went back to the police station and by that time the Sheriff's deputies arrived and they took me to Kingston. I was questioned there by Detective Montgomery, and I have to say, she was great, very nice."

However, Negron says she was not sent to Kingston Hospital to check her blood for drug residues. Instead, she was arraigned and charged with burglary in the second degree and criminal mischief in the third degree. She was released on her own recognizance, pending a future day in court.

Alice Negron says, "I didn't steal anything. I admit that I damaged things, because I was hallucinating."

Negron says that the earlier coverage of the incident upset her.

"Nobody ever contacted me. All the newspaper coverage and radio coverage, it was all done without anyone contacting me, which I think is pretty unfair."

At the Ulster County Sheriff's Department, Detective Sergeant Lynch said, "It is not our responsibility to have blood work done in a case that isn't primarily about drinking or drugs. This case did not warrant that. It does fit the statutes and she was charged appropriately."

Detective Sergeant Lynch also said, "This woman was saying she was being chased by aliens. She may just have had too much to drink."

Calls to the Ellenville Police were not returned in time for publication.